Trayvon Martin murder trial witness Rachel Jeantel has been offered a full scholarship to the HBCU of her choice from radio personality Tom Joyner.
A pilot program to track students via RFID-enabled badges is being scrapped in San Antonio after they had no effect on attendance.
Janet Napolitano will be the university system's first female president in its 145-year history, replacing Mark G. Yudof.
A team of Canadian engineers won the Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition, breaking a few records in the process.
Scientists have been testing an alternate to the atomic clocks we are used to. Optical lattice clocks are said to be three times as accurate as atomic clocks.
A Long Island school district's summer reading list is riddled with more than 30 spelling mistakes in author names and book titles.
Researchers have created talking cigarette packs that play audio recordings explaining the health risks of smoking each time they are opened.
After over 10 years gathering information on stars and galaxies, NASA has decommissioned its "galaxy hunter" spacecraft, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
A federal judge in Michigan blocked a law attempting to prevent domestic-partner benefits from being offered to public employees.
A kayaker and his father-in-law were attacked by a great white shark off of Pacifica State Beach.
Three Chinese astronauts demonstrated a series of scientific experiments from space to students back down on Earth.
As the blind activist weighs his options after he leaves NYU this summer, he discusses China's "underestimated" reach into American academia.
Tajreed Edward Rich, 41, an employee at Robbinsdale Cooper High School in New Hope, Minn., faces sexual assault charges after he was caught having sex with a 17-year-old student.
Noah Kilpatrick, 15, has left Faith Fellowship Christian School in Watertown, N.Y., claiming that two teachers teased him over his Canadian heritage.
Over the years, an increasing number of French students have decided to leave France and come to the U.S. to study.
Though the Gaokao is known by students to be the most grueling test they will ever take, there are some that look forward to it-- businesses.
Roy Costner IV, the valedictorian for Liberty High School in South Carolina, tore up his preapproved speech and recited the Lord's Prayer in defiance of a recent school board decision.
Andrew Beal, a Texas banker and self-taught mathematician, is offering $1 million for whoever can solve the Beal Conjecture.
China's central government has been rolling out new measures to ensure the nation's young learn the values of the Communist Party.
In China, some parents have their children learning business basics as early as three years old.
As graduating seniors exit the ivory tower, politicians and media figures will send them off with some parting words of wisdom.
Creighton University professor Roger Brumback and wife Mary Brumback were found killed in Nebraska. Police are investigating a link to the murder of Thomas Hunter.
Some students from the University of Southern California are posting videos and photos to social networking sites alleging the LAPD attacked and arrested partygoers because they were minorities.
Jamie Foxx was subjected to racist tweets after wearing a shirt honoring Trayvon Martin at the MTV Movie Awards Saturday
Chinese students are known to be competitive, but murder may be one step too far.
In 2014, the test price is set to double, hence the abandoning of the paper-version of the high school equivalency exam.
A Florida father expressed rage over a note his fourth-grade son wrote in class on giving up his constitutional rights for safety and security.
A California junior high school's new dress code bans girls from wearing leggings, which some parents call unfair and sexist.
Mike Tyson is appearing in a "Fifty Shades of Grey" scene during the spoof, "Scary Movie 5."
Two Chicago public schools are considering amending a school code to allow random drug testing among students involved in after school activities.